The Entropic Mourners

2018

Dimensions variable

Glassware, Shoe Soles, Found Objects, Driftwood, Wax, Plaster Cast, Spools, Pigment

July 5th, 2018, approximately 6:30 PM on the southwestern bend of the Carquinez Strait, our train struck and killed a trespasser. Alice noticed a tennis shoe loose on the side of the track, continuing her gaze she then spotted the body. The only witnesses who bare the incident are the withered wooden sunken beams outside my window, like a row of mourners in the wake of a tragedy. Time has stood still, it reflects off the water and through the locomotive as through us all.

The Entropic Mourners (2018) is an assemblage installation containing glassware, driftwood, leather shoe soles, and miscellaneous fragments of the early 1900’s found on the shoreline of Dead Horse Bay. These remnants are dyed and waxed with my mother's dry pigments, and synthesized through a process of wrapping and tangling of my grandmother’s spools of thread. The installation is an interpretation of the wooden beams from my recorded memory from July 8th, 2018, shown above. All the objects and materials assembled, both found and sentimental, were witnesses to their own histories. The Entropic Mourners is thus a witness composed of witnesses.